French President Emmanuel Macron and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, arrive at a joint news conference in Beijing on Thursday. | AFP-JIJI
Politico: Europe must resist pressure to become ‘America’s followers,’ says Macron
The ‘great risk’ Europe faces is getting ‘caught up in crises that are not ours,’ French president says in interview.
ABOARD COTAM UNITÉ (FRANCE’S AIR FORCE ONE) — Europe must reduce its dependency on the United States and avoid getting dragged into a confrontation between China and the U.S. over Taiwan, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview on his plane back from a three-day state visit to China.
Speaking with POLITICO and two French journalists after spending around six hours with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his trip, Macron emphasized his pet theory of “strategic autonomy” for Europe, presumably led by France, to become a “third superpower.”
He said “the great risk” Europe faces is that it “gets caught up in crises that are not ours, which prevents it from building its strategic autonomy,” while flying from Beijing to Guangzhou, in southern China, aboard COTAM Unité, France’s Air Force One.
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WNU Editor: French President Macron's trip to Beijing must have been an eye--opener for him to make such a remark. Not surprising. US politicians are reacting (see below).
Funny to see how American politicians are suddenly very concerned about Europe's course towards Ukraine.
— Richard (@ricwe123) April 10, 2023
Why would Europe trust a 'partner' who destroys NordStream to sell their expensive gas?
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-Marco Rubio,Republican senator pic.twitter.com/7RvWKqHTb1
Do I hear a poodle yipping?
ReplyDeleteNow we know why Australia ditched the French for the Americans and British submarines.
ReplyDeleteAll it took was one visit
ReplyDeleteKeeping dirty little secrets unexposed are a great incentive.
ReplyDeleteI got to shit
ReplyDeleteGot enough ass whipped
ReplyDeleteWhen you think about it, this nord stream explosion could be Russia.
ReplyDeleteSeeing that some EU countries already have built those LNG installations and sanctions coming Ukraine war. They already have built gas lines to China for example. They knew that nord stream would become almost usles. So why not blow it up and make us doubt the US intentions even more?